skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think of it as the culture revolution of the digital age.

If you cheered for Twitter shutting down Trump, or Amazon kicking out Parler, you shouldn't be surprised for this.
Blood pressure can be controlled without drugs using neural stimulation
It was pretty popular before AWS had it as SaaS. Not everyone needs it, of course.
Looking at this from another point of view, no other option but today.
There is probably more users violating the terms today (hate speech) then ever before. If they were already watching, then there is a threshold. Today would be the day the threshold is hit. Today is probably the tipping point of no return, moderation becomes virtually impossible.
Who Is Gabriel Plotkin?
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Lol why do they invite him back. Cause every single time hes way to honest and ends up slandering their network. Its like a coin flip at this point.
Where do we go from here and who is going to step up to help us?
Nice one Discord, you just radicalized 2 million WSB subscribers and everyone else who hears about it. Well done.
The assumption that this is a bunch of robin hood everyday-man sorts conspiring on Reddit seems incredibly naive.

The GameStop play (as with BBB, AMC, Express, etc) are classic pump and dumps, albeit with a short-squeeze magnifier (basically equal to a DDOS amplification). And if you really traced back to the origin, I highly doubt you're going to find some Joe Nobody -- you're going to find some very well financed, planned player.

GameStop is a doomed enterprise in an obsolete space (selling physical copies of games), so it was incredible seeing WSB spin fantastical tales of the marvelous future ahead for it.

Everyone else gets some intense FOMO that leads them to piss away their own money (you can't just buy options because options on hyper-volatile stocks price that in), and then a lot of people get burned. Everyone is running around talking about how everyone made millions from WSB tips or something, it's farce.

As is always the case, a tiny number of people benefit, and a huge number of people financed their return.

The whole story seems super dumb. And the SEC is likely paying very close attention.

Loads of people throughout this discussion have absolutely no clue what they're talking about. What a low information crowd this is.
And peat is nowhere near as dense or insulating as wood. Wood doesn’t really want to change temperatures easily, which is partially why we make floors out of it.
Doesn't iOS Safari already support WebRTC?
Tesla is going the opposite route and integrating their battery into the vehicle more to save weight and increase capacity.
It's an open chat platform. Yes it can be manually moderated, but all it takes is one guy posting something they know is bannable for admins to be within the rules to ban a server. Pretty convenient.
My problem with these arguments is that its meaningless, if this "bad OO" (or "bad <insert paradigm>") is what most developers write.

Its a big problem I have with ORM's. Every time a discussion about what's bad about ORM's is brought up, there's a multitude of people saying that its just used wrong, written wrong or otherwise done wrong, yet that's basically my experience with every non-toy codebase I've ever worked on as part of a larger team. Telling me that its just done wrong is useless because its out of my hands. Is it the ORM's fault? I argue yes because it encourages that kind of programming, even though its not technically the ORM's fault.

I see it the same with OO or anything else. Is this "bad OO" the type of OO people tend to write? If yes, then OO is the problem. If no, then OO is not the problem.

Personally, I like a mixed approach where I use some OO and a lot of functional. I'm writing a little toy game in C++ from scratch and I have a very flat design, preferring functional approaches where I can, but I have a few objects and even a little bit of inheritance where it makes sense. Sometimes dealing with an object-based API is just more convenient and I won't shy away from using OO principles, but I also don't default to them just because either.
Couldn't you just load the first frame of the video, and aren't most image formats optimized for fast thumbnailing? I take your point that there are times when it will be slower, but are you saying that you assumed ML would be faster than on the fly, or did you actually check?
If you're standing 100 feet away to use a movie-magic trick to make two objects seem next to each other when they're very much not, you're (edit: probably) being dishonest.

edit: when that standing next to each other is attempting to introduce a narrative that people are doing something contrary to what they're actually doing
It's crony capitalism at minimum, and absolutely disgustingly oppressive at the maximum. These people seemingly are physically unable to let "the little guy" have even a whiff of financial independence.
> I’m just not sure that I agree that a network effect is monopolistic.

A natural monopoly is a monopoly in an industry in which high infrastructural costs and other barriers to entry relative to the size of the market give the largest supplier in an industry, often the first supplier in a market, an overwhelming advantage over potential competitors.

Source there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

A social network is very similar to railroad network, electricity distribution network, or landline phone network. Yet we allow Facebook or Youtube to do whatever they please with the servers they own, while regulating the hell out of the older ones.
Some posts below said that banning for hate speech was really a charade. But if that's true, what's wrong with retail investors pooling their resources to squeeze short? How is it different from a hedge fund pooling resources to flex their muscle of financial engineering?
They don't necessarily force you to buy it back now, but they ask you to deposit more money to cover your "on-paper" losses. The broker usually has some discretion in when to do this, but there are also regulations for how far they can let it go.

The shorts collectively have losses on paper of $35bn+, which is a lot of money even for well-capitalized Wall Street funds.
How to record a video online with co-authors?
It's possible they think so, but if they think it'll have money in it, after it lost money six of the last seven quarters, I'm not sure what they're smoking.
It's now back again
Which banks went out of business? Weren't many (all?) major banks about to be insolvent before getting saved by their buddies (aka, future bank Directors) in government?
> The same is true of functional and procedural programming, too.

There are some specific criticisms that are levied against FP for which proponents respond “that’s not true FP”. For example, the criticism “FP is too preoccupied with monads” might engender such a response; however, this response is appropriate because it’s not one of the defining features of FP. Yet for FP, there are still pretty widely-agreed upon features or conventions (functional composition, strong preference for immutability, etc).

For OOP, I can’t think of any features or styles that are widely agreed upon. If you mention inheritance, half of OOP proponents will argue that inheritance isn’t a defining characteristic because Kay didn’t mention it in his definition. If you mention message-passing, many others will object. If you mention encapsulation, then you’ve accidentally included virtually all mainstream paradigms.

If OOP is a distinct thing, and it isn’t about inheritance or message passing or encapsulation or gratuitous references between objects (the gorilla/banana/jungle problem), then what exactly is it?
Valid point, if your app is a todo list manager.

There's a level of complexity in the domain logic where all these things mentioned by the author become pain points.

That complexity can't be reduced by "simplify your UI" statements.
Doesn't look like it's the same case.

Hedge funds are losing at their own game with their own rules, and trying to find other ways to win.
An enormous amount of propaganda has been pumped directly at us for years. It’s not really their fault.
> If you're buying a million acres for over a hundred million dollars, then that's about 150 miles of border to patrol.

> If that's too expensive then go up to 10 million acres, which triples the land area per mile of border. Or 100 million acres.

I don't really follow. The use case is that you want to prevent small farmers from encroaching on the jungle. This will only ever happen at the border between where the small farmers end and the jungle begins. If you buy land behind the border, that's nothing but a waste of your money (until the border is so thoroughly dejungled that your old hinterlands is the new border).

In turn, this means that all of the land you're interested in is border. You can't rely on the fact that a circle has a high ratio of area to perimeter to claim cost-efficiency, because you're structurally constrained to owning maximally cost-inefficient strip shapes.
Aaaaaand the sub-reddit is back.

http://reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets
How does this differ from other populist manipulation via social media? We've seen this technique used repeatedly in many domains. IMHO, it looks obviously the same in many ways.

It's very effective and we should have anticipated that it would be used to move markets. I expect people on HN to recognize it. The question is, what will we do about it? It's tearing society apart and now it looks to damage our economy too.

It is well documented that authoritarian governments, including Russia and China, have invested heavily in these techniques. I don't know the source of the GameStop bubble, but if Russia/China didn't see the potential to attack U.S. society and financial markets before, they see it now and will use it.

The question is, what will we do? How do we maintain an open society, which is essential, and protect against this manipulation?

I think an essential part of the solution is the power of critical thinking and reason, the very foundations of the Enlightenment, and that the well-educated (not only them, but definitely them) have to take the lead in applying those skills, and start a social media movement in that direction. The people reading this should be leaders; unfortunately, I see them again and again allowing themselves to participate in mob psychology. The response to these events is particularly chilling. Where is the forum of intellect, knowledge and facts? Almost everything I see is misinformation and conspiracy theories.
this aged badly.
This is really cool to see. I looked at adding an integration with Bannerbear into WeBase several months ago but decided it was too niche of a product. But as it grows it could be really beneficial to revisit this integration.

Nice work!

[1] https://www.webase.com
“In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.”

- Ben Graham

This mostly holds true depending on you define 'long run.'
I wish someone added support for sum types to Postgres. That is all.
If you mean force others to take care of the stable boy, then no, it can not be moral.

What is moral and also efficient and kind is not standing in the way of him finding another occupation - to remove all regulation that hinders someone from providing value
Ah cool!

I suppose one can incorporate uncertainty on f(t) by having g(y,t) = gausy(0,\sigma(t)) * \delta(y-f(t)) (which would also effectively antialias in the few-lines case).

Also I guess you have to be careful not to plot a Weierstrass Function!
I never said anything about banning. Mods can take a sub offline (making it private). I don't know why we're even having this discussion.
Just guessing, I suspect that the regulatory environment in the US adds cost. It costs more to buy or lease the space here, and it costs more here to hire people. It all adds up.
No one kills off ecosystems better than the environmentalists and their Taliban style system of puritanism.

We have enough deserts in the solar system. We should be developing the ocean deserts more.
It sure does. I think to support this phenomenon, a person is likely too unimaginative to extrapolate the trend into the future, or else a loon who wants to 'let the world burn'

I hate the financial system as much as anyone else, but a world where Redditors do the manipulation seems as bad to me. I remember thinking, back when 4chan was famous for 'meat space' activism against crazy people, that it could get scary if the wind changed. It did.
> Nothing against Pelosi

Nothing against Pelosi? If that's as it appears to me (trading on insider information, by a person in a position of public trust no less) she needs to be heavily fined, in prison, or both.
I'm not going to disagree with you on the semantics of that, but this simply is in a totally different league. There is almost always plausible deniability that the stock value and company value are related. Meanwhile Gamestop is up over 1600% in a couple weeks with no fundamental changes to the company. There is no argument that can be made for anything else beyond the stock price being manipulated by a coordinated effort.
HN is a shitty echo chamber. You tech bros just suck each other's cocks off all day
Short answer... it's complicated. And it's intentionally complicated to make it difficult for people to understand how they are getting ripped off on the price of drugs and by who.

Here's a brief video that breaks down some of it though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15IQO_jTMUM
Reminds me of a phenomena calling merchanting clans[0] on the video game RuneScape.

It would start with a small group of players convincing a bunch of casual players to join their clan and buy out as much of the supply of a specific item on the market as they could. They claimed if everyone held on to the items for two weeks the price would rise and they'd all get rich.

Of course, the leaders would then sell their items one week in. This would cause the price of the item to drop, resulting in the other members of the clan panic-selling all of their items. The price of the item would then crash resulting in most players losing their money.

Eventually the game developers made the organization of such clans a bannable offense since too many casual players were losing a lot of their wealth participating in these events.

[0] https://runescapeclans.fandom.com/wiki/Merchanting_Clan
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You mean the folks who are about to walk into the storm thinking it's never going down and lose their bet? Yeah those guys are screwed and they will make wonderful emotional think pieces written by the same corporation who gave a mouthpiece to the hedge funds. The issue is it's a continuation of the equality issues in America so rational behavior may not be in scope for this one.
Nope :)

I'm black, I didn't like seeing a guy say ni*er hundreds of times in charge of the place where WSB users end up, I reported it :)

(and don't give me some dumb bullshit about "wElL yOu GuYS sAy Ni*a" it's not the same no matter how upset that makes you)

Took a while but I'm glad it's gone :)

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I spent a lot of time on the main Discord that existed before this one (which most people had abandoned at the time since it was devoid of intelligent speech even by WSB)

WSB by it's nature has some rough edges, it's not the most politically correct place.

But a mod, a real mod with admin, not the joke WSB mod stuff... saying that stuff so much? Nah I'm going to report it.

WSB is on the edge of satire and outright toxicity but it toes the line fairly well.

That server was the opposite, mostly toxic (and not even in a humorous or satirical way) with very occasional coherency.
Not enough volume for them to have done that, from what I've seen.
because melvin capital and citadel investments have a long track record of being clean and not fined for breaking laws...

oh wait
Can you see how rtard is perhaps similar to the homophobic f-slur? The word is used as a pejorative with the implication that the group it is most commonly used towards (disabled, gay) is being used as a point of negative comparison. While I think we should be aware that the use of language is incredibly context-rich, we also need to recognise that the words we use have side-effects. Would you feel comfortable if a friend of yours dropped something and said "oh damn, I'm such a <n-word>"?
Every order affects the entire market (at least for that security and its derivatives) so they must be processed serially in a single process.
It seems like the subreddit has gone back up: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6j4r9/wher...
I don't see how. "yes, we can now subsidise our competitors?"
Porn, racism, and homophobia. A true axis of evil. It would be nice if we could come up with some new boogeypeople once in a while.
I would assume one can't talk of one's tardiness on GameFAQs, yes.

I would also assume that in class, context would be more easy. Of course, some people were fired over the use of the word “niggard”, but it's a fairly obscure word, but I did once see it in an English translation of the Qurʾān.
No, that was the old server. It was changed to the new one, which apparently is filled with hate speech.
Why should r/sino be banned? I have never been there before your post but it looks like a small pro CCP group on reddit?
I think that /r/wsb got 500k new subscribers today, and maybe about 1.5M in the last week.

Corporate America is getting scary... I think that their actions could be initiated by the U.S. Government...

edit: 1 hour later, ~250k more subscribers... (3,754,326 readers as of 21:05 EST)
I’m not saying she didn’t do something wrong, my intent was that my comment wasn’t partisan in nature. This is unacceptable regardless of party.
If a shorter lends his one borrowed stock to another shorter there will be a chain of shorters for the one stock. Isn't that what happened?
Q: As a senior software engineer, do I have to do paid "on-calls"?

A: Yes. Every team rotates on-calls among their senior software engineers.

Then I just leave saying "thank you for your time".
There are few words that closely align with common WSB terminology. I filtered most of them, will add it to the list.
Comments like these really drive home how much a deranged cult phenomenon this whole thing is, more so than any headlines.
I hear you. Completely agree. I always thought the complaints were a bit narrower in scope than most people on HN seemed to believe.
not really. you're going to get killed because shorters have been hunting for stop losses all day for the past week.
Elon Musk has repeatedly offered to allow other manufacturers to use the Tesla supercharger network, he's been saying it for years:

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/tesla-elon-musk-open-supe...

https://www.gearbrain.com/tesla-supercharger-accessible-othe...

He's even fine with them using adapters for Tesla's plug, they just have to pay "their fair share" to use the Tesla superchargers. Of course the devil's in the details who knows what a licensing agreement like this would cost.
That is an option but hopefully a last resort.
When you mess with the bull, you get the horns.
Minor thing that jumps out at me but has potential to be major: it’s generally better to use interface over type when possible for a variety of reasons. The most important one being that type has significant compiler overhead. But interfaces also have better recursion support, and tend to have better compiler errors/DX (depending on usage).
> Why not just have an open WiFi network?

I used to do that for a long time. It was great for guests and also for plausible denaiblity if I every got a nastygram from my ISP.

But the liability just got to great and the plausible deniability argument got pretty weak. And also, with so many neighbors with devices that will just auto join open networks, I started seeing strange traffic a lot, most likely from neighbors connecting accidentally.

At the end of the day, making it super easy for guests inside my house without being totally open works out well.
I think even if words like that aren't used to intentionally bully or harm someone, it certainly sets the tone of an environment. We all have to make the choice as individuals about what tone we want our words and actions to bring to the world around us.
Depends on the problem domain. See the posts on Wizards and warriors:

https://ericlippert.com/2015/04/27/wizards-and-warriors-part...

For card games, OOP is very well-suited (so to speak).
Maybe that's the next round in the information wars? Each side probing the automated moderating systems of large social media platforms until they find the right sequence that will trigger a shutdown. I'd assume state actors will be able to do this on their own, but for us without state sponsorship, maybe you'll be able to buy it as a service off of the dark web.
It is and the sub is already back.
Because they spent much of the last few days discussing their reasoning on public forums, and it consisted almost exclusively of one of two messages:

* Short sellers have to buy lots of GME from us on Friday, so we'll be rich if the stock has a high price then.

* The rest of us are buying and holding lots of GME so you should too.
Doing on-call is directly a no-go for me.
The fact that 4Chan itself has not been the target of deplatforming efforts is confusing to me. If I were to put my tinfoil hat on for a bit, I might speculate that it’s a honeypot that shares data with the feds.
And these people include the Discord operators!
Founder here - thanks for giving it a try! My email is open any time you have questions in the future when you revisit Bannerbear :)

jon@bannerbear.com
Maybe other governments. Medicare has billions in fraud each year. The process for signing up for Medicare and Medicaid can be complicated. If you've ever served in the military or government you know how much waste can be involved.
You’ll have to be more substantive than that.

If it hadn’t been for Jane Fonda and her crowd of naysayers like green peace, we would not be in the same predicament we're in.

Do, yes, we will need nuclear to supplement renewables.
> OCaml which depends on C

How so? The OCaml compiler is written in OCaml and bootstraps itself.
Everything Google does. We're locked in because of familiarity and network effects.
They never said completely or 100% in CNBC or other press, so WSB are alleging that they only closed some low percentage of their positions, which makes sense mathematically. Closing out ALL the shorts at $300-ish/stock (closing time) would be disastrous to any fund, with the shorts predicated on last months' Gamestop prices of around a single digit.

Disclaimer: I do not have a position on Gamestop or any other US stocks.
I love a good XKCD. :-)

I wonder if the fact anyone can join the open source party at any time, means they generally don't.

To explain, I posit that people like to have the reassurance of Open Source existing as the minimal floor of quality of experience.

And then they go chase "the best experience" knowing that if it all falls over they can go back to the welcoming embrace of Open Source.

Who knows, maybe WSB people are busy with a Murmur server right now!
"We're suffering from success and our Discord was the first casualty. You know as well as I do that if you gather 250k people in one spot someone is going to say something that makes you look bad. That room was golden and the people that run it are awesome. We blocked all bad words with a bot, which should be enough, but apparently if someone can say a bad word with weird unicode icelandic characters and someone can screenshot it you don't get to hang out with your friends anymore. Discord did us dirty and I am not impressed with them destroying our community"

Key point for me. Under the guise of 'hate speech' suppression is occurring. Of course every platform has the right to dictate users of their platform yada yada...